Praise for
Childhood Disrupted
“
Childhood Disrupted
masterfully captures the complexity of how early life adversity imprints on our
biology and stalks our health into adulthood. Heartrending stories of hardship and triumph laced with
medical facts and findings create a framework of practical advice for remaining unbroken in a challenging
world.”
—Margaret M. McCarthy, PhD, professor and chair, Department of Pharmacology, University of
Maryland School of Medicine
“Donna has once again taken a difficult medical topic and made it not only easy to understand, but a great
read. Eye-opening and inspiring,
Childhood Disrupted
provides a paradigm-shifting road map for
understanding how early stress is linked to later illness, and offers a must-read vision for how to begin
healing at any age. This book will help readers, and especially women, better understand the biology of
stress, and jump-start important new conversations about our health and well-being!”
—DeLisa Fairweather, PhD, associate professor of toxicology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of
Public Health
“
Childhood Disrupted
is a timely book that summarizes the effects of childhood adversity, incorporating the
current science in a very personalized and approachable way. The more we understand about childhood
adversity and its imprint on our body and brain, the more we can help each other recover from its harmful
effects. This is an important read for anyone looking to help those afflicted by childhood adversity, whether
personally or in a caring role such as parents, teachers, and health-care workers.”
—Ryan Herringa, MD, PhD, assistant professor of child and adolescent psychiatry, University of
Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
“In this stimulating book that eloquently describes the effects of one’s biography on mind, brain, and body,
Nakazawa guides us through a step-by-step path to recovery. This work represents an invaluable source of
hope and inspiration for anyone who is suffering from the aftermath of early adverse experience.”
—Ruth A. Lanius, MD, PhD, neuroscientist and professor of psychiatry and director of the
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research Unit, University of Western Ontario
“If you want to know why you’ve been married three times. Or why you just can’t stop smoking. Or why
the ability to control your drinking is slipping away from you. Or why you have so many physical problems
that doctors just can’t seem to help you. Or why you feel as if there’s no joy in your life even though you’re
“successful.” Read
Childhood Disrupted
, and you’ll learn that the problems you’ve been grappling with in
your adult life have their roots in childhood events that you probably didn’t even consider had any bearing
on what you’re dealing with now. Donna Jackson Nakazawa does a thorough and outstanding investigation
of exactly how your childhood made you ill and/or joyless, and how you can heal.”
—Jane Stevens, editor,
ACEsConnections.com
“
Childhood Disrupted
is a book of major significance that describes clearly and understandably what has
been learned in recent years about the important subject of human development and how what happens in
childhood affects our well-being, biomedical health, and life expectancy as adults. It will be appreciated by
many.”
—Vincent J. Felitti, MD, director and founder, California Institutes of Preventive Medicine
“
Childhood Disrupted
is a must-have book for every person facing mental or physical health challenges and
their loved ones—and an inspiring read for every health-care professional.”
—Gerard E. Mullin, MD, associate professor of medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and
author of
The Gut Balance Revolution
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